| 单词 | on lay |
| 释义 | > as lemmason (a certain) lay 6. slang. A line or plan of business, occupation, adventure, etc.; a (particular) job, ‘line’, or ‘tack’: often in on (a certain) lay. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > [noun] > regular occupation, trade, or profession > line of business or work line1638 way1642 lay1707 walk1715 slang1789 métier1792 Fach1838 lark1934 line of work1957 1707 G. Farquhar Beaux Stratagem iii. 30 Cou'd I bring her to a Bastard, I shou'd have her all to my self; but I dare not put it upon that Lay, for fear of being sent for a Soldier. 1707 C. Cibber School-boy i. 3 The puppy will play, though he knows no more of the Lay, than a Milkwoman. 1715 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 97 To distinguish myself from the refusers upon a Jacobite lay. 1760 C. Johnstone Chrysal I. ii. viii. 194 I first set them on the lay. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 83 I shall be on that lay nae mair. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxii. 217 He's not to be found on his old lay. 1858 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem I. lii. 201 It is a sad thing for a great country..to have taken to the filibustering lay. If the word is from the vocabulary of thieves, to the conduct of thieves it is appropriate. 1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly III. iv. 74 For a year or two he wrote poetry. But the papers in America, he found, were in a league against genius. So he gave up that lay. < as lemmas |
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